Ice-cream-making machine.



I'. P. MILLER. 10B CREAM MAKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY I9. 1918.

Patented Nov. 3, 1914.

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ICE CREAM MAKING MACHINE.

APPLIUATION FILED JULY 19, 1913.

1,116,096. Patented N0v.3,1914.

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FRANKLIN I. MILLER, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

ICE-CREAM-MAKING MACHINE.

T0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANKLIN P. MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at East-0range, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ice-Cream-Making Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in ice cream making machines, and the primary object of the invention is to provide improved means whereby the mechanism which drives the dasher and can in reverse directions can be readily swung into an inoperative position to enable the can or the contents thereof to be removed and returned to an operative position and locked when another can has been substituted, the present invention enabling this to be done without disturbing the tub containing the ice or refrigerating medium.

To these and other ends, the invention consists in certain improvements, and combinations and arrangements of parts, all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out particularly in the claims at the end of the speciiication.

In the accompanying drawings :-Fignre 1 is an elevation, partly in section, of an ice cream making machine constructed in accordance with the present invention, the driving mechanism being shown in operative relation with the dasher and can of the freezer; Fig. 2 is a top plan view, partly in section, of the machine shown in Fig. 1, the driving mechanism for the dasher and can being shown in inoperative position; Figs. 3 and Il are detail views, partly in section, showing the device provided by the present invention for locking and unlocking the freezer driving mechanism; Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of a portion of the locking mechanism.

Similar parts are designated by the same reference characters in the several views.

The present invention is applicable generally to ice cream making machines or freezers. In the present instance, the invention is shown in connection with an ice Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 19, 1913.

Patented Nov. 3, 1914. Serial No. 780,061.

cream making machine which embodies a freezer' and an ice breaker, these parts belshaft 5 which carries tight and loose belt pulleys G by means of which the mechanism is driven. A gear 7 is also fixed on the shaft 5, this gear serving to operate the freezer. The freezer embodies a tub 8 which is mounted on and may be fixed to the base 1 and is adapted to contain broken ice or any suitable freezing agent. The freezer can 9 is mounted revolubly in the tub, it being supported at the bottom by a central pivot 10 and the upper end of the can is provided with a cover 11 having a head 12 fixed thereto and provided with oppositely extending shoulders 13 which cooperate with projections 14 attached to the can revolving gear 15. The dasher 16 within the can is adapted to be revolved in a reverse direction relatively to. the direction of rotation of the can, the upper end of the dasher having a head 17 which is centered in the cover 11 of the can and is formed with a squared or angular socket 18 to receive the similarly formed end of` the dasher-operating shaft 19. The shaft 19 extends loosely through the dasher-operatiner gear 15 and the bushing 20 and is spline on the gear 21, the gears 15 and 21. being revolved in reverse directions by the gear 22. The dasher-operating shaft 19 is movable vertically in order to engage and disengage its lower end relatively to the socket 18 of the dasher. In the construction shown, a slotted head 23 is mounted l'evolubly, on the dasher-operating shaft 19, and a lever 24 is pivoted at 25 to a casing 26, the lever 24e having projections 27 arranged to coperate with the slotted head 23 to lift the shaft 19 and thereby uncouple it from the dasher when the lever 2-1 is moved into a vertical position, and the shaft 19 will be lowered and coupled to the dasher when the lever 24 is moved into a horizontal` position as shown in Fig. l. The casing 26,'

together with the gears and other parts composing the freezer-operating mechanism, is mounted on an arm 28, and this arm. is mounted to swing the freezer-operating1 mechanism to and from a position above the can in order to enable a can containing the frozen cream to be removed and another can substituted. This Aarm 28 in` the construction shown is rovided at one side with a pivot pin 29 which is iiXed to a lateral eX- tension 8O of the arm, the upper and lower ends of the pivot pin coperating with bearings 31 and 32 fined preferably to one of the walls of the casing 2 of the ice breaker. The pivot pin 29 is capable of vertical movement between the bearings 3l and 32 for the purpose ot lifting the freezeroPlo-ingmcchanism to discngagc thc projections 14 from the driving head 12 on the cover of the freezer can preparatory to swinging the crm and the freezer-operating mechanism laterally or to one side of the f can, and after the arm 2.8 and the freezeroperating mechanism have heen returned to a position above the freezer can, the arm, together with its operating mechanism, is lowered and thereby brought into driving relation with the freezer can. u

The present vinvention provides L ySimple device whereby the arm 28 may be easily lifted and lowered and when in lowered position this device Serves to lock the freezeroperating .mechanism in driving condition. The device in the present instance embodies a handle 3 3 which is pivotd at 34; to the adjacent wall of the ice breaker casing, and this handleis connected by a link 3,5 to one end of a lever 36, this leverbeing pivod at 37 to the casing or the ice breokcrand its opposite end occupies a position immediately beneath the lower end of .the pivot pin 29. 'llhe handle 33 is also provided with a rib 38, the lower surface oit' which is eamshaped or formed eccentrically of the pivot 34, and a pin or projection 39 is formed on thccdjaccnt portion of the arm 28 and s engaged by the rib 38 on the handle 3.3 as .thc .latter is swung into thc upright posi,- ton as .Shown in Fig- 3, this rib and projection then operating to draw `the arm `2&5

, down and to lock it in such position Where.-

by correct operative relation Will he maintained between the freezer can and dasher and their operating devices. When the handlc .3.3. is swung into the position .show-n in Fig. 4, the link 35 and lever 36 will .he operated to lift the pivot pin 29, thereby elevatine'` thc arm .28 and the freezer-operating mechanism thereon and disengagin auch mechanism from thc freezer can. The. gacher operating shaft le is disengaged trom the dashcr by the handle 242 'She handle .3.3

ed to be shifted to and from operative rela-V tioIl. With the gear 7 by lifting and lowering the arm 28. 1When the arm 28 has been elevated in the manner stated, the ice breaker may be used independently of the freezer. lf it is desired to change the cans or to renieve the contents of a can in the tub, the

arm 28 is then swung to. one side of the top of the can aS. .Shown in F ig. 2. By reversing this order of operations, the freezer-operating mechanism is returned to operative condition.

l claim as my invention 1. ln an ice cream making machine, the combination of a freezer can and dasher, driving mechanism therefor, and an arm carryingl said driving mechanism and mounted to swing laterally to and from operative p0- sition relative to. the can and dasher, said arm being also movable vertically on its axis.

2. lin an ice cream making machine, the combination of a freezer can and dasher, driving mechanism. therefor, an arm carrying the driving mechanism and mounted to swing` laterally relatively to the can and dasher, and means. for elevating the arm carrying the drivingvmechanism' to disengage the lattei from the can. l

3. lin anv ice cream making machine, the combination of a freezer can and dasher,

driving mechanism therefor mounted. to-

swing bodily laterally relatively thereto, and means. for bodily Yelevatung the driving mechanism to disengage it from the can and for locking such mechanism in operative relation with the can. f

4. lin an ice cream making machine, the combination of afreezer can and flasher, a pivoted arm movable laterally oit the can and carrying can and dasheioperating mechanism, and means operative in one direction to unlock Said arm and elevate th@ same and operative in a reverse direction to lower Said arm and lock the driving mechamsm thereon in coperative relation with the can and dashcran ice cream making machine, the .combination 'of a freezer can' and dasher, a drive shaft, operating mechanism for the can and dasher operative`by said drive and Ineens for shifting said mecha- IllSiIl to engage or disengage the same relatively to .aid drive shaft and, also. the .can and dashea .6. 2in an ice. creano makina machine, the

. .ccmhinatiom cfa drive chart, a freezer having a can and dasher,- vand driving mechamy hand in presence of two subscribing witfor the freezer bodily mwable ver1tinesses. c to en a e or isenga e t e same're atvely to shaft and lso the can and FRANKLIN P' MILLER' 5 dasher and movable laterally relatively to Witnesses:

the can anddasher. A. L. GOLDSPINK,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set J AMES HENDERSON. 

